Manufacture of chlorinated compounds of lime.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

i HERMANN SOHULTZE, OF GRIE'SHEIM-ON-THE-MAIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO GHEMISOHE FABRIK GRIESHEIM ELECTRON, OF FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, GERMANY.

MANUFACTURE OF CHLOBINATED COMPOUNDS OF LIIMZE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 19, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMANN SCHULTZE,

-a subject of the German Emperor and a following is a specification.

' efficient an sition of the calcium hypochlorite.

It is well known that the dry compound of lime and chlorin at present on the market does not contain more than forty per cent. of active chlorin the remaining sixty per cent. being useless inert matter. All attempts previous to this invention, to produce a chlorinated compound of lime containing a much higher percentage of active chlorin have failed as, in the usual process based on bringing dry slaked lime into contact with chlorin, the lime is not capable of taking up more than the aforesaid amount of chlorin.

According to this invention a dry chlorinated com ound of lime is obtained in an economical manner, the said compound having a content of active chlorin of from eighty to ninety per cent.

Instead of starting, as is usual, from dry slaked lime, milk of lime is taken and through this, while being stirred, chlorin is passed until the lime is almost saturated with chlorin. The solution of chlorinated lime thus obtained is filtered and then so evaporated that there is the least possible decompo- This can be effected, for instance, by concentrating the solution in cacao at a low temperature or,

. (as the rate at which decomposition takes place is a function of time) by effecting the evaporation rapidly at a high temperature.

'T he calcium hypochlorite is precipitated in a crystalline state and can be easily 'separated by suction and washin out.

Kingzett, in 1875, obtaine this compound in small amounts (Chemical News 31 and 32) by evaporating the solution of chlorinated lime over sulfuric acid in a vacuum desiccator thereby obtaining calcium hypochlorite in the form of crystals containing about 47 per cent. of active chlorin, but the crystals he obtained were very unstable, and the ex eriment, though interesting from a scienti c point of view was useless for practical purposes. Kingzett stated that he was not in position to give practical process for the manufacture of the crystals and Lunge in his Handbuch derSoda-Industm'e, II edition, Vol. 3, page 371, (1896,) expressed himself to the same effect. (See also his remark re Kingzett in the Chemical News 46, page 148, for 1882, and also the remarks of Wmteler on Kingzetts calcium hypochlorite in the Zeitschmftfur Anorganische Chemie for 1903 Vol. 93, age 182.)

T e unstable character of hypochlorites is found to be attributable to their contents of moisture and water of crystallization and the crystals obtained by evaporation can be rendered stable, if, after their evaporation from the mother-lye and suitable washing out, they be deprived entirely oftheir moisture and of the greater part of their water of crystallization by drying quickly at a high 'tem erature of from 40 to 50 degrees centi- One molecule of this compound can give off 4 atoms of active chlorin. also has the following advantages t dis- The com ound solves in water without coloration, the solution being almost clear, and therefore no clarifying apparatus is required at the place where the new com ound is used, and it does not yield any trou lesome residual product. Exposed to the air it does not become damp like ordinary chlorinated lime. It is re markably pure, uniform, and satisfactory in use, and its bleaching ower is excellent, as it is possible to evolve t erefrom, as required, free chlorin, free hypochlorous acid, oroxygen, while there is economy in freight,,pac mg and storing.

The product has the formula of Ca (OCl) small quantitiesof CaCl ca c1o.j CaCO Ca(Ol'l) and H 0; an analysis of the compound giving the following results:

83.7% Ca(()Cl 83.1% active chlorin 5.8% laCl 0.6% Ca(Cl() i .1 (laCO 3.8% Ca(()H) 5.0% l-l O Having thus described my invention what l claim is:

l. The herein described processof manulecturing a dry and permanent chlorinated compound of lime, consisting in evaporating facturing a dry and ernianent chlorinated compound of lime, W ch consists in evaporating a solution of chlorid of lime, taking care that there is the least ossible decomposition of the calcium hypoc orite, separating the crystals so produced from the liquid and quickly drying the said crystals.

3. The herein described process facturing a dry and permanent chlorinated compound of lime, which consists in evaporating a solution of chlorid-of lime, taking care that there is the least ossible .decomposition of the calcium hypoc lorite, se arating the crystals so produced from the iquid and quickly drying the said crystals at a high temperature.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERMANN SGIIULTZE. Witnesses:

FRANZ H'AssLAonER, ERWIN DIPPELY.

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